6.K. Find A Chair or Where You Sit Is Where You Stand
Who would have thought that a battleground of democracy would be over where to place poll watchers?
Poll watchers have been told to sit in the back of the room, refused chairs, placed behind barriers, and even seated in other rooms.
Poll watchers are required to station themselves in a position in the Polling Room [emphasis, editor] that enables them to observe the judges making the signature comparison between the voter application and the voter registration record card.
This means that when selecting and configuring the Polling Place, the Election Authority must allow a place for poll watchers. That place must be where the poll watcher can see the polling book or e-poll screen and the ballot application to observe the comparison of the voter's signature.
Chairs are not "election material". If chairs are available, the poll watcher is free to place one where they can observe the comparison of the signatures, while also seeing the ballot box, the voting booths, voting machines, and the rest of the room.
Remember that the Election Authority has no obligation to provide a poll watcher with a chair. The poll watcher may consider carrying a folding chair in their car, just in case.
Keep your chair—and yourself—out of the way of voters and Election Judges.